Week 69 (nice!) & 70

("stand-up" is a term I borrowed from software dev circles - this is a short report on what I've been doing and what I'm planning, intended to keep my supporters aggressively up-to-date. This is not a typical dev blog post.)

The Ukraine conflict is still ongoing. I'm still doing my best to help and I still urge you to help if you can. 🇺🇦

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Remember all of the times I tell you that there wouldn't be anything interesting to say in daily breakdown? Well, it's true again this time, but I kept proper notes on what I'm doing so you're still going to have to suffer through it cuz I already did the work. :D

I probably wont have a daily breakdown in the next standup.

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TL;DR:

Things I got done over the last two weeks: Dev plan, dev plan, dev plan. Also a bit of work on a testing framework, a h-scene framework, and celebrating St John's Day.

Things I want to get next: Dev plan, dev plan, dev plan, alongside occasional programming stuff that helps me keep a bit saner.

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Week 69

Monday - Day off

Tuesday & Wednesday - I got the proof-of-concept for my pure-Renpy testing framework done. It's not entirely useful yet (it can only play part of the intro), but it is clearly superior to my previous Sikuli testing framework. I should make a longer dev-blog-like post about testing and Princess Tower - I find working on automated testing very relaxing.

Thursday & Friday -  Dev plan: I kept reading through PT, putting together througlines and story beats and now began to look at them in isolation - ie. all of the options of how they might flow into one another.

Saturday - Day off

Sunday - I started putting together the collected throughlines & story beats, but I kind of quickly got stuck on figuring out the major gameplay revisions I might make.

Week 70

Monday & Tuesday - Days off

Wednesday - I got started on a new h-scene framework. I got it nearly done, but then ran into some weird bugs that I couldn't quite figure out.

Thursday & Friday - Extra days off to celebrate St. John's Day - one of the only two holidays I take days off for, alongside Christmas.

Saturday - Spent the entire day chasing that bug I caught on Wednesday. Turns out there was a line of Renpy script that should never have worked, but somehow did until I updated my Renpy version, after which Renpy threw an error at… a completely different part of the code for some reason.

Sunday - Trying to organize a basic outline of the story if I decide to change infractions into a currency Ari earns but wants to get rid of, along with a host of changes that would accompany that one.

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There's a massive heat wave going on, I don't have AC, and I absolutely cannot handle hot weather, so I'm just trying to hang in there for a while. Doesn't seem like the heat wave is going to let up this week, either.

I hope your week is as nice as the feeling of the 1,5L bottle I use as an ice pack. :)